Aam Aadmi Party which was formed mainly to fight the corruption in politics, has come a long way after its short lived political experiment in Delhi and perhaps, realizing it very soon, its founder leader Kejriwal has publicly admitted that "communalism is the much bigger issue than the corruption."

If that was the
case, the very formation and existence of the Aam Aadmi Party comes
into question. All other parties were repeatedly saying and
practicing the same thing that "corruption" is not a significant
issue in our society and politics and "communalism" is a big
issue as you can not play the "minority card" with the
corruption, but you can play the same by making the "communalism"
a political issue .

At least, for the first time, one would have
to agree that Kejriwal is very honest in admitting the fact that vote
bank politics can not be practiced only by highlighting the
corruption and wild accusations, as people have been used to it and
do not consider the same as a political issue. If Kejriwal has to do
the politics, he will have to learn the tricks of the trade and he
has understood this pretty soon and abandoned his "fight
corruption" attitude in favor of the "fight communalism"
approach, which has been well practiced by other political parties
over the years.

Though is has become fashionable to blame
the politicians for all the corruption, after the Anna Movement,
people also understand that the problem of corruption does not start
and end with the politicians only. Politicians are chosen by the
people living in our society and people elects only those persons as
their leaders to represent them in Parliament or in Assembly whom
they consider the best according to their own ideology. If we look at
the records of the recent past, we will find that people got offended
if some political party goes overboard in fighting the corruption.

We have the examples of Karnataka,
Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. In all these states, BJP was in
power and thrown away by the people in favor of the Congress for
fighting the corruption. In Karnataka, BJP leadership forced
Yedurappa to resign as Chief Minister after Lokayukt indicted him of
corruption. People of Karnataka did not take this corrective step by
BJP lightly and thrown away the BJP Government at the next available
opportunity.

Similarly, Uttrakhand was the only state
where BJP Government enacted a Lokpal Bill, which was not only
praised by Anna Hazare, but also Kejriwal. But people of Uttrakhand
did not like this "strong Lokpal" and thrown away the BJP
Government at the next available opportunity and when Congress
Government led by Vijay Bahuguna came to power, the first thing it
ensured that the "Strong Lokpal Bill" of BJP Government was
replaced by a Lokpal Bill of its own as well as people's choice.

Same thing happened in Himachal Pradesh,
where people preferred Virbhadra Singh and the Congress and rejected
BJP which could not spread corruption in the State according to their
expectations.

This should not lead us to believe that
there is no corruption in BJP. One could only conclude that in
today's scenario, politics is not possible without corruption. It
could only vary from party to party. When BJP was trying to act "as
honest" as Kejriwal was trying to act few months back, it got
elected only 2 members in Parliament. It learnt from the Congress and
other political outfits over a period of time and realized if you
have to survive in politics, corruption has to be accepted as a way
of life as people generally like it.

It is good that Kejriwal understood this
very fast and leaving the "corruption" behind, straightway came
to the issue of "communalism" which is hot favorite in vote bank
politics and ensures that you remain darling of the minorities for
all times to come.

To further prove this point, one can see the
example of Uttar Pradesh, where neither BJP nor the Congress is in a
position to get a majority and form a Government for the last few
decades and BSP and SP are forming the Governments with absolute and
comfortable majority. This shows that corruption always wins in
politics.

Bigger Corruption defeats smaller corruption
and smaller corruption defeats honest politics. People are just not
bothered about the corruption as long as you play your "minority
card" , caste, religion and community factors.

BSP and SP, both have mastered this art of
politics in UP and enjoying the fruits of the politics with
comfortable majority. If Kejriwal is doing the same thing for
achieving his political ambitions in the national politics, he is
only following what other political parties have been successfully
practicing for so many years and no one should take an offence for
the same.

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